Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants tonight shot dead two sisters after dragging them out of their house in Sopore town of North Kashmir's Baramulla district, the first major strike targeting civilians this year.

Arifa and Akhtar, daughters of Ghulam Nabi Dar, were gunned down by three militants, including a Pakistani, at around 10 PM at Muslim Peer in Sopore town, 52 kms from here, Superintendent of Police Sopore Altaf Ahmad told PTI.

According to preliminary investigations, the three Lashkar militants barged into the house and forcibly took the girls, aged between 16 to 18 years, police said."The girls were later shot dead by the militants near the Ziarat (shrine) Rahim Sahib. One of them was shot in the left eye," Ahmad said, adding their bodies were found near their house.

It could not be immediately ascertained why the militants had targeted the sisters.The police officer said the local militants involved in the killing have been identified as Wasim Ganaie and Muzaffar Naikoo. Both the ultras are among 'A' category militants and carry a cash reward on their heads.This was the first incident of civilian killings by militants in the Kashmir Valley this year.

A brief article of mine , titled "The Nuclear Cover-Up" is published in the latest issue of INDIA TODAY which has hit the stands today . The issue is dated February 07, 2011 but it is already on sale. For your information , I have reproduced below the text of this article . Regards -- Dr.A.Gopalakrishnan , Former Chairman , Atomic Energy Regulatory Board , Govt. of India

The Nuclear Cover-Up

By

Dr.A.Gopalakrishnan

Dr. Anil Kakodkar served as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) during the crucial years from 2000 to 2009 . During his tenure , in around 2004 , the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) formulated a nuclear power plan , which concluded that India can generate a total of 192,530 GWe-years of electricity from the net available natural uranium and thorium resources in the country , by following the three-stage Bhabha plan . The 2004 DAE plan projected that this totally indigenous program will deliver 208,000 MWe of installed nuclear power by 2052 , without having to import any uranium or nuclear power reactors from abroad beyond the first two VVERs from Russia .

Following the July 2005 visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Washington , the government's foreign policy focus shifted to establishing an Indo-US strategic relationship , even if it meant the trading in of a part of the nation's sovereignty and its hard-earned self-reliance in the nuclear sector . In return for this strategic bear-hug , the government agreed to quid-pro-quo arrangements to purchase a significant number of power reactors from the US , as well as from France and Russia . The corporate houses in India and abroad and their Federations and Business Councils who were eager to import nuclear reactors to India were active collaborators in shaping this change of policy . Among the facilitators were also some politicians , senior bureaucrats , and scientific stalwarts from India and abroad who saw some benefit in it for themselves . Somewhere along the way , the top officials of the AEC and the DAE were also co-opted by the PM to help him justify his drastic redirection of India's nuclear policy.

To help the PM , the DAE came up with a trumped up , revised nuclear power plan in July 2008 , which was revealed by Dr. Kakodkar in his address to the Indian Academy of Sciences . This plan was centered around the baseless argument that importing 40,000 MWe of Light-Water Reactors (LWRs) between 2012-2020 is an absolute necessity to avoid a 412,000 MWe shortage in electric power availability in 2050 , which would otherwise occur . In effect , this was concocted by suppressing some of the realistic possibilities for electricity generation from available non-nuclear sources , and thereby creating an artificial deficit which was then filled by imported nuclear power reactors . Interestingly , according to DAE's 2004 plan , the same total electricity demand in 2050 was promised to be met wholly through indigenous efforts in nuclear power , national & imported coal and natural gas to fuel power plants , and by setting up renewable energy & hydro power units .

In the face of mounting opposition to the unproven French reactors to be set up in Jaitapur , Dr. Kakodkar (now retired from the AEC) has given an interview to a Marathi daily , on January 5, 2011. He appears to have said, " It may be asked why we don't concentrate only on uranium import and why are we taking foreign help in other nuclear areas. Here , we must realize that we have to take into consideration the interests of certain foreign countries and their industries also . From their point of view , if there is more real business interest in other areas of nuclear technology apart from uranium sales , then India has to consider this aspect seriously . Such give & take arrangements are inevitable when we wish to get India recognized as a nuclear power and remove the nuclear restrictions on our country ." (Translated from Marathi) .

From the above , it is clear that the arguments for nuclear reactor imports stated all along by the government and in its 2008 revised nuclear power plan were merely an eye-wash and a cover-up . The import of reactors was the price that the PM paid as a quid-pro-quo arrangement for the NSG clearance , which has now landed India in the precarious position of becoming the dumping ground for hitherto un-built & untested high-cost nuclear reactors like the French EPRs at Jaitapur which could endanger the lives of several thousand people in and around Maharashtra in the coming years.

[Dr.Gopalakrishnan is a Former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board]

the british wiped out indigenous education, because they wanted to create coolies for their world-conquest. and they succeeded. all of us come out of college as coolies for the west. it is only after a large amount of detoxification that some of us begin to see the light.

the vast majority of indians -- eg. bdutt, sagarika, digvijay -- are toxified and toxic throughout their nasty, brutish lives.

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Namaskar,

On 30/1/1948 M K Gandhi was shot dead. On this day we present two articles.

1. State of Indigenous Education India in the 18th century - excerpts from a book by noted Gandhian Dharmpal - 'In October 1931 Gandhiji was invited to address the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London where he made two observations. One 'that today India is more illiterate than it was fifty or hundred years ago'. Two that 'the British administrators instead of looking after education and other matters which had existed began to root them out. They scratched the soil and began to look at the root, and left the root like that and the beautiful tree perished'.

Dharampalji visited London archives and has reproduced British survey reports that tell us of how the Indian education system worked, report on education in Punjab, Bihar, Bengal. Ch 5 has the British strategy to kill India's indigneous education system, Ch 6 gives Table which show Sudras were highest nos of scholars, Ch 8 has two articles by Daulat Ram Gupta titled 'The Decline of Mass Education in India & How Indigenous education was crushed in Punjab'.

2. Everyone talks about Gandhi's murder but few ask why was he killed - This piece attempts to give answers. Chapters are of Law of Causation and Karma, excerpts from Nathuram Godse's book ie his defence in Court, Gandhi's changing attitude, Sri Aurobindo on Gandhi, Food for thought.

Must read for all Indians, Hindu "secularists" (sic) and "Gandhians" (sic) in particular. A most eloquent address by the late Shri. Nathuram Godse, articulating the rationale for eliminating Mohandas Ghandy.

His speech in court was censored by the Stalinist Nehru regime, in order to prevent the Indian people from seeing the obvious and evident vulgarity of Ghandhian pacifism in its complete nudity.

An objective evaluation of the logic articulated in this speech would have the unbiased reader (i.e. not brainwashed by the cult of "secularism") concur with that argument.

This speech is very relevant to contemporary India, even though the event occurred 63 years ago. Censorship by a government under the tutelage of the Nehru dynasty is a real fact even in the 21st century. Distortion of truth and perversion of the political parlance by Christist indoctrinated, bigoted, dishonest "Secular"Taliban media is an even greater concern. Throttling of informationis the primary mechanism that has allowed the Nehruvian STALINIST regime to survivein power for the better part of 6 decades.

I KILLED GANDHI!!! - NATHURAM GODSE 'S ADDRESS IN COURT

Gandhiji Assassin: Nathuram Godse's Final Address to the Court.

Nathuram Godse was arrested immediately after he assassinatedGandhiji, based on a F. I.. R. filed by Nandlal Mehta at theTughlak Road Police station at Delhi . The trial, which was held incamera, began on 27th May 1948 and concluded on 10th February 1949. Hewas sentenced to death..

An appeal to the Punjab High Court, then in session at Simla, did notfind favourable and the sentence was upheld. The statement that youare about to read is the last made by Godse before the Court on the5th of May 1949.

Such was the power and eloquence of this statement that one of thejudges, G. D. Khosla, later wrote, "I have, however, no doubt that hadthe audience of that day been constituted into a jury and entrustedwith the task of deciding Godse's appeal, they would have brought averdict of 'not Guilty' by an overwhelming majority"

WHY I KILLED GANDHI

Born in a devotional Brahmin family, I instinctively came to revereHindu religion, Hindu history, and Hindu culture. I had, therefore,been intensely proud of Hinduism as a whole. As I grew up I developeda tendency to free thinking unfettered by any superstitious allegianceto any isms, political or religious. That is why I worked actively forthe eradication of untouchables and the caste system based on birthalone. I openly joined RSS wing of anti-caste movements and maintainedthat all Hindus were of equal status as to rights, social, andreligious and should be considered high or low on merit alone and notthrough the accident of birth in a particular caste or profession.

I used publicly to take part in organized anti-caste dinners in whichthousands of Hindus, Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, Chamars andBhangis participated. We broke the caste rules and dined in thecompany of each other. I have read the speeches and writings ofRavana, Chanakiya, Dadabhai Naoroji, Vivekanand, Gokhale, Tilak, alongwith the books of ancient and modern history of India and someprominent countries like England , France , America , and Russia .Moreover I studied the tenets of Socialism and Marxism. But above allI studied very closely whatever Veer Savarkar and Gandhiji had writtenand spoken, as to my mind these two ideologies have contributed moreto the molding of the thought and action of the Indian people duringthe last thirty years or so, than any other single factor has done.

All this reading and thinking led me to believe it was my first dutyto serve Hinduism and Hindus both as a patriot and as a world citizen.To secure the freedom and to safeguard the just interests of somethirty crores (300 million) of Hindus would automatically constitutethe freedom and the well-being of all India , one fifth of human race.This conviction led me naturally to devote myself to the HinduSanghtanist ideology and program, which alone, I came to believe,could win and preserve the national independence of Hindustan , myMotherland, and enable her to render true service to humanity as well.

Since the year 1920, that is, after the demise of Lokamanya Tilak,Gandhiji's influence in the Congress first increased and then becamesupreme. His activities for public awakening were phenomenal in theirintensity and were reinforced by the slogan of truth and non-violencewhich he paraded ostentatiously before the country. No sensible orenlightened person could object to those slogans. In fact there isnothing new or original in them. They are implicit in everyconstitutional public movement. But it is nothing but a mere dream ifyou imagine that the bulk of mankind is, or can ever become, capableof scrupulous adherence to these lofty principles in its normal lifefrom day to day.

In fact, honour, duty, and love of one's own kith and kin and countrymight often compel us to disregard non-violence and to use force. Icould never conceive that an armed resistance to an aggression isunjust. I would consider it a religious and moral duty to resist and,if possible, to overpower such an enemy by use of force. [In theRamayana] Rama killed Ravana in a tumultuous fight and relieved Sita..[In the Mahabharata], Krishna killed Kansa to end his wickedness; andArjuna had to fight and slay quite a number of his friends andrelations including the revered Bhishma because the latter was on theside of the aggressor. It is my firm belief that in dubbing Rama,Krishna , and Arjuna as guilty of violence, the Mahatma betrayed atotal ignorance of the springs of human action.

In more recent history, it was the heroic fight put up by ChhatrapatiShivaji that first checked and eventually destroyed the Muslim tyrannyin India . It was absolutely essentially for Shivaji to overpower andkill an aggressive Afzal Khan, failing which he would have lost hisown life. In condemning history's towering warriors like Shivaji, RanaPratap and Guru Gobind Singh as misguided patriots, Gandhiji hasmerely exposed his self-conceit. He was, paradoxical as it may appeara violent pacifist who brought untold calamities on the country in thename of truth and non-violence, while Rana Pratap, Shivaji, and theGuru will remain enshrined in the hearts of their countrymen for everfor the freedom they brought to them.

The accumulating provocation of thirty-two years, culminating in hislast pro-Muslim fast, at last goaded me to the conclusion that theexistence of Gandhi should be brought to an end immediately. Gandhihad done very well in South Africa to uphold the rights and well-beingof the Indian community there. But when he finally returned to Indiahe developed a subjective mentality under which he alone was to be thefinal judge of what was right or wrong. If the country wanted hisleadership, it had to accept his infallibility; if it did not, hewould stand aloof from the Congress and carry on his own way.

Against such an attitude there can be no halfway house. EitherCongress had to surrender its will to his and had to be content withplaying second fiddle to all his eccentricity, whimsicality,metaphysics and primitive vision, or it had to carry on without him.

He alone was the Judge of everyone and every thing; he was the masterbrain guiding the civil disobedience movement; no other could know thetechnique of that movement. He alone knew when to begin and when towithdraw it. The movement might succeed or fail, it might bring untolddisaster, and political reverses but that could make no difference tothe Mahatma's infallibility. 'A Satyagrahi can never fail' was hisformula for declaring his own infallibility and nobody except himselfknew what a Satyagrahi is. Thus, the Mahatma became the judge and juryin his own cause. These childish insanities and obstinacies, coupledwith a most severe austerity of life, ceaseless work and loftycharacter made Gandhi formidable and irresistible.

Many people thought that his politics were irrational but they hadeither to withdraw from the Congress or place their intelligence athis feet to do with as he liked. In a position of such absoluteirresponsibility Gandhi was guilty of blunder after blunder, failureafter failure, disaster after disaster. Gandhi's pro-Muslim policy isblatantly in his perverse attitude on the question of the nationallanguage of India . It is quite obvious that Hindi has the most priorclaim to be accepted as the premier language. In the beginning of hiscareer in India , Gandhi gave a great impetus to Hindi but as he foundthat the Muslims did not like it, he became a champion of what iscalled Hindustani.. Everybody in India knows that there is no languagecalled Hindustani; it has no grammar; it has no vocabulary. It is amere dialect, it is spoken, but not written. It is a bastard tongueand cross-breed between Hindi and Urdu, and not even the Mahatma'ssophistry could make it popular. But in his desire to please theMuslims he insisted that Hindustani alone should be the nationallanguage of India . His blind followers, of course, supported him andthe so-called hybrid language began to be used. The charm and purityof the Hindi language was to be prostituted to please the Muslims. Allhis experiments were at the expense of the Hindus.

>From August 1946 onwards the private armies of the Muslim League began a massacre of the Hindus. The then Viceroy, Lord Wavell, though distressed at what was happening, would not use his powers under the Government of India Act of 1935 to prevent the rape, murder and arson. The Hindu blood began to flow from Bengal to Karachi with some retaliation by the Hindus. The Interim Government formed in September was sabotaged by its Muslim League member’s right from its inception, but the more they became disloyal and treasonable to the government of which they were a part, the greater was Gandhi's infatuation for them. Lord Wavell had to resign as he could not bring about a settlement and he was succeeded by Lord Mountbatten. King Log was followed by King Stork. The Congress which had boasted of its nationalism and socialism secretly accepted Pakistan literally at the point of the bayonet and abjectly surrendered to Jinnah. India was vivisected and one-third of the Indian territory became foreign land to us from August 15, 1947.

Lord Mount batten came to be described in Congress circles as thegreatest Viceroy and Governor-General this country ever had. Theofficial date for handing over power was fixed for June 30, 1948, butMount batten with his ruthless surgery gave us a gift of vivisectedIndia ten months in advance. This is what Gandhi had achieved afterthirty years of undisputed dictatorship and this is what Congressparty calls 'freedom' and 'peaceful transfer of power'. TheHindu-Muslim unity bubble was finally burst and a the ocratic statewas established with the consent of Nehru and his crowd and they havecalled 'freedom won by them with sacrifice' - whose sacrifice? Whentop leaders of Congress, with the consent of Gandhi, divided and torethe country - which we consider a deity of worship - my mind wasfilled with direful anger.

One of the conditions imposed by Gandhi for his breaking of the fastunto death related to the mosques in Delhi occupied by the Hindurefugees. But when Hindus in Pakistan were subjected to violentattacks he did not so much as utter a single word to protest andcensure the Pakistan Government or the Muslims concerned. Gandhi wasshrewd enough to know that while undertaking a fast unto death, had heimposed for its break some condition on the Muslims in Pakistan ,there would have been found hardly any Muslims who could have shownsome grief if the fast had ended in his death. It was for this reasonthat he purposely avoided imposing any condition on the Muslims. Hewas fully aware of from the experience that Jinnah was not at allperturbed or influenced by his fast and the Muslim League hardlyattached any value to the inner voice of Gandhi. Gandhi is beingreferred to as the Father of the Nation.

But if that is so, he had failed his paternal duty in as much as hehas acted very treacherously to the nation by his consenting to thepartitioning of it. I stoutly maintain that Gandhi has failed in hisduty.

He has proved to be the Father of Pakistan. His inner-voice, hisspiritual power and his doctrine of non-violence of which so much ismade of, all crumbled before Jinnah's iron will, and proved to bepowerless. Briefly speaking, I thought to myself and foresaw I shallbe totally ruined, and the only thing I could expect from the peoplewould be nothing but hatred and that I shall have lost my entirehonor, even more valuable than my life, if I were to kill Gandhiji.But at the same time I felt that the Indian politics in the absence ofGandhiji would surely be proved practical, able to retaliate, andwould be powerful with armed forces. No doubt, my own future would betotally ruined, but the nation would be saved from the inroads ofPakistan . People may even call me and dub me as devoid of any senseor foolish, but the nation would be free to follow the course foundedon the reason which I consider to be necessary for soundnation-building.

After having fully considered the question, I took the final decisionin the matter, but I did not speak about it to anyone whatsoever. Itook courage in both my hands and I did fire the shots at Gandhiji on30th January 1948, on the prayer-grounds of Birla House. I do say thatmy shots were fired at the person whose policy and action had broughtrack and ruin and destruction to millions of Hindus. There was nolegal machinery by which such an offender could be brought to book andfor this reason I fired those fatal shots. I bear no ill will towardsanyone individually but I do say that I had no respect for the presentgovernment owing to their policy which was unfairly favorable towardsthe Muslims. But at the same time I could clearly see that the policywas entirely due to the presence of Gandhi.

I have to say with great regret that Primes Minister Nehru quiteforgets that his preaching's and deeds are at times at variances witheach other when he talks about India as a secular state in season andout of season, because it is significant to note that Nehru has playeda leading role in the establishment of the theocratic state ofPakistan, and his job was made easier by Gandhi's persistent policy ofappeasement towards the Muslims. I now stand before the court toaccept the full share of my responsibility for what I have done andthe judge would, of course, pass against me such orders of sentence asmay be considered proper. But I would like to add that I do not desireany mercy to be shown to me, nor do I wish that anyone else should begfor mercy on my behalf. My confidence about the moral side of myaction has not been shaken even by the criticism leveled against it onall sides. I have no doubt that honest writers of history will weighsmy act and find the true value thereof some day in future.

this fellow, the economist stringer in delhi, has been the worst foreign correspondent in india since oh... the NYT's john burns, the NYT's barbara crossette, the NYT's elisabeth bumiller. hmmm... maybe a pattern is emerging here.

i understand astill is, finally, leaving. it may be short-lived relief, though, because the voice of NATO, the 'atlanticist' surely has even worse bigots on staff. the previous guy, simon long, was actually quite a decent person, though.

charitable interpretation: yunus has lost it with age, but refuses to step down.

a bit like verghese kurien, the god of amul, although i do wonder in his case also how much of it is clever marketing (helped by buddies in the elm like fellow kerala xtists bg verghese, tn ninan, kgs george et al) and how much is real.

uncharitable interpretation: microfinance is a huge fraud.

this suspicion arises because of the enthusiasm of india's stalinists for the idea, and the concomitant crony capitalist moves that have helped folks like SKS microfinance to make huge money.

and now they are trotting out this new hoax of 'inclusive growth' which basically means "more funds diverted from the taxpaying hindu public to our party cadres, mohammedans and xtists". more hare-brained schemes like NREGA.

CHENNAI: The culmination of the BJP's Tamarai Yatirai, christened as Chennai Porattam (Chennai agitation) was a big draw throwing traffic out of gear on GST Road and the fact that the saffron party was able to pull in such huge crowds raised many eyebrows.

The valedictory event of the yatirai evidently tried to compete with main stream Dravidian parties by putting up huge digital banners, posters, festoons and party flags besides lifesize hoardings of State BJP chief Pon Radhakrishnan with Nitin Gadkari on arterial roads of the city and its suburbs.

Interestingly, a big chunk of the crowd wore 'Pon Radhakrishnan masks' and raised Bharat Mata Ki Jai, slogan when party leaders spoke. Cadres came in huge numbers from various districts of the State and vehicles of all sizes hired by party men clogged vehicular movement on the GST Road.

Tamarai yatirai began in November last with a five point agenda. The main demand was scholarship for poor Hindu students on a par with minorities. Good governance, priority for farm sector, reining in price rise, protection to temples and its properties were the other demands. The yatirai traversed over 9000 km covering all districts in the State.

Taking a vow that his party would send MLAs to the assembly, Pon Radhakrishnan said the first voice of party members in the legislature would be to demand scholarship for poor Hindu students

-- India was the richest country on earth till the British invasion in the 17th century.

and all these andhra people -- i bet they are mostly neo-converts looking for an easy passport to the us -- get caught. they should have taken different avenues of which i can suggest two:

1. claim you are a 'divinity student' or padre. you get an immigrant visa with little trouble. your church can help

2. marry a kerala christist nurse. there are plenty of them in the us with immigrant visas.

no need to get caught in this sort of sordid drama when there are such easier alternatives for christists.

i don't know if the 'collar' story is true or is just made up by indian media. i wouldn't put it past the migra to do it, of course.

you guys remember jaichand pallekonda, the doc who is also a christist fundamentalist and a foulmouth and an andhra guy? i wonder if a) he's involved in this scam, and b) why not a peep has been heard from him about unfairly yanks are treating fellow-andhras.

GOI says 'committee that took the decision to appoint P J Thomas as CVC did not know about the criminal case against him in Kerala'. Appalling the PM and Home Minister did not know about the case. Do they think Indians are fools to see thru this lie. Wonder how he was appointed Telecom Secretary in the first place and his role in the 2G scam. Wish someone investigated that as well. Rgds sanjeev

New Delhi: Twin blows in the Supreme Court on Thursday compounded the political problems facing the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance.

First, it was censured by the apex court for shoddy investigation into black money stashed away in European banks. Then, its legal representative conceded that the committee that took the controversial decision to appoint P.J. Thomas as the central vigilance commissioner (CVC) did not have information about a case against him in Kerala—a claim that was immediately rubbished by one of the three members on the committee—Sushma Swaraj, leader of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The other two members of the committee were Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and home minister P. Chidambaram.

An analyst described the government's stand in the court as either the "height of incompetence or duplicity" and said it would provide fresh political ammunition to an already aggressive BJP.

The court also issued notices to six economic and public agencies of the government for failing to ratify a 2003 UN Convention on Corruption, which would have made acquiring information on white-collar crime from various countries possible. It would also have made it mandatory for India to release information to other countries.

1) How do you judge the Egyptian protests?It is tempting to see this as a revolution that will bring down the regime. But Egypt is not Tunisia. And while the demonstrations are passionate it is not clear that the numbers of participants are huge. If the elite and the army hold together they could well prevail, perhaps by removing Mubarak to save the regime. We should be cautious in drawing conclusions.

2) Do you see the threat of an Islamist takeover by the Ikhwan?So far the uprising has not been led by the Muslim Brotherhood. But it is the only large organized opposition group. It is hard to see how it would not be the leading force after a while. The leadership would have to decide that it is facing a revolutionary situation and that this is the moment for an all-out effort. But if it does so and fails there will be a terrible repression and the group will be crushed. It appears that the Brotherhood is joining the protests but has not made its basic decision yet. In the longer term if the regime is completely overthrown I do believe the Brotherhood will emerge as the leader and perhaps the ruler of the country.

How come there is no brouhaha about mass hysteria whenever there is a so called miracle witnessed by Christians. There is nothing spiritual about blood red tears from statures this is all satanic.

from Vineet Sharma at 19:17, Jan 28, 2011

any such hindu belief is called as myth and so called supersition.........so that should be the bench mark .....it cannot be that hinduism has all myths whereas chrisitanity and mother marry myths (with all due )respect) are religious appartitions........ridiculous

from sridh2003 at 16:08, Jan 28, 2011

If this kind happen in india u media people tell hindus makeing fraud to earn money. If its happen out side india its maricale for media. what a hypocrati

from arun23285 at 14:22, Jan 28, 2011

the garuda flying over the ornaments in our own country in sabarimala...is a great wonder in itself

from abhijith01 at 11:52, Jan 28, 2011

this is a piece of crap. Please change the news headline to "Christian Apparitions" If it were to be an impartial journalism, you would have reported many such inexplicable beliefs across various relegions within India like Ganesha drinks milk or some inexplicable landmarks like "Naama Chilume" near Bengaluru where we can see water flowing out of 4 inch deep hole that was believed to be caused by an arrow of Lord Ram and many more resonable news than "tainted windows", "marks on the wall caused by rain water", "blurred image of a man-made fence". looks like website is adding this as a content area filler news. Such myopic news is not what is expected in IBN-Live. Hope CNN IBN will be sensitive enough in future before publishing such crap and biased information. --

lala lajpat rai: beaten to death during the protest against the simon commission in 1927 must be turning over in his grave.

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J&K cops 'offered urine for water' to Ekta yatris

January 29, 2011

Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

When separatist leader Yasin Malik and others marched to Lal Chowk with black flags, the police offered them hot tea and cigarettes. But we were arrested for trying to hoist the National Flag… When we asked for water, the police offered us urine."

Dozen of BJP youth wing workers who have returned to the Capital — with fractured limbs and numerous wounds — narrated the story of brutality unleashed by the Jammu & Kashmir Police in Srinagar on January 26.

These youth leaders had to sneak into Srinagar and hide in small groups to continue with the plan to hoist the National Flag at Lal Chowk, after threats by separatists and prohibitory orders by the State administration.

While Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) chief Anurag Thakur and BJP leaders were arrested upon entering Jammu & Kashmir, a couple of youth wing workers made an attempt on January 26 morning to hoist the flag at Lal Chowk.

KK Upadhyay, an engineer from Gurgaon, was the first who tried. He was beaten up. The next group of workers came as close as 20 metres from Lal Chowk. No sooner did one of them take the flag out of his pocket and wave it, that several policemen pounced on him, snatched away the flag, tore it (the National Flag) into pieces and beat him up, fracturing his left hand in the process.

"J&K Police personnel were carrying posters — 'Indian dogs, go back'. The arrested BJP activists were forced to take off their clothes in sub-zero temperatures. Third degree torture was meted out. Does Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have any explanation for this kind of an action? He should apologise to the nation," Anurag Thakur told The Pioneer on Friday.

The State Police, Thakur said, not only tortured party workers but also used obscenities against the BJP national leaders. Maintaining that his yatra was a success – as party workers managed to hoist the flag so close to Lal Chowk despite police cordoning off the area – Thakur said his next plan was to reach out to the people, students in particular, and expose the UPA's pro-separatist polices.

"We have been successful in our endeavor to excite and rejuvenate India's youth into proactively taking the cause of national integration and sovereignty," he said.